Ilex gardneriana Wight (1848:1217)
Nilgiri holly
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1858 (Biju, 1999:153); 1859 (Nayar & Sastry, 1990:23; Oldfield, 2020)
Since rediscovered (timeframe unclear) (Das & Mukherjee, 2017)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).
Distribution
Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 4: t. 1217 (1848)
Other references:
Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]
Biju, S. D. (1999). Chronicle of Discoveries - The Pursuit of Plants, pp. 145-174. In: Manoharan, T. M., Biju, S. D., Nayar, T. S. and Easa, P. S. (eds.). Silent Valley: Whispers of Reason. Kerala Forest Research.
Das, Monalisa and Mukherjee, Ambarish. (2017). A census of Aquifoliaceae (Bartl.) in South India. Indian J.L.Sci. 6(1): 61-67.
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [687].
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Mao, A. A. and Dash, S. S. (2020). Flowering Plants of India an Annotated Checklist (Dicotyledons) 1: 1-970. Botanical Survey of India.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (eds.). (1990, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 3. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. 271 pp., 8 pls. [pp. 23-24]
Noble, William A. (2004). The aftermath of the Pleistocene in the Upper Nilgiris of southern India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 101(1): 29-63 [57].
Oldfield, S. (2020). Ilex gardneriana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T31176A142009704. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T31176A142009704.en. Downloaded on 20 March 2021.
Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
Ramesh, B.R. and Pascal, J.-P. (1997). Atlas of endemics of the Western Ghats (India). Distribution of tree species in the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests. Institut Français de Pondichéry.
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1998). Ilex gardneriana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T31176A9611026. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T31176A9611026.en. Downloaded on 18 November 2016.
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